Conference trip to AUA 2024 - PRECISE recommendations

Conference Travel

A contribution from members of the CLIE Climate Action Team

The students and staff at IOE walked over 5000km during June in a bid to encourage a more sustainable way of life. We would like to make a small donation to the UCL Grove so more trees can be planted.

Offsetting carbon from a family trip.

One tree for each year spent working on EUCLID-VIS, with the hope to come one day and see them grown.

Carbon off-setting a conference trip to Montreal

20 x trees in the name of Dr Medine Gulcebi - Best Poster Prize Winner at The Hot Brain: Climate Change and Neuroscience conference, 18 May 2023

20 x trees in the name of Dr Jessica Gong - Best Poster Prize Winner at The Hot Brain: Climate Change and Neuroscience conference, 18 May 2023

A vain attempt to clear my conscience for flying all that way to a conference

Allez Union

Planting this tree as a leaving gift to our lovely colleague Sophia.

Anna Szabó T.

On Darkness

Where the heart was, a word is beating: Forget.
There was heat, though; you lay back in the grass
and felt the pulsations searing through your flesh,
under your eyelids, there, where the sun was;
a mirage burns into the retina
like the trace left by a touch upon your skin,
the grass, the sun, the feeling cold, the drying
and the smell over cooling water of the wind…
the word beats, stammers, forget it, let it drop
just as the warm, rough palm tenderly reaches,
unexpectedly, almost devoid of weight,
to touch the naked shoulder, while the beach
sinks into dusk, the water stirred by the wind,
a shivering body filling up with warmth…
you dare not move.
It's gone. Quite gone. The season
is changing - oh so slowly the sky revolves.
Snow falls on the water, forget, forget,
behind the eyes darkness without a flaw,
which does not warrant tears, it has not the weight.
But if you let it drop, you too will fall
beneath dark water cold as ice, oh such
a deep cold that there simply is no longer
sun enough to melt it with a touch.

Offsetting a conference visit - keep up the good work!

This is a great idea - thank you for setting it up!

This is a great idea - thank you for setting it up!

Green Impact Gold

This is to celebrate the hard work of all the 2021/2022 Green Impact Gold Award recipients. Each Team will have three trees donated on their behalf.

The teams are:

Arts and Sciences BASc/
BSSC Green Onions/
CBER/
Central Library/
Cruciform Hub/
Dementia Research Centre [ION]/
Department of Information Studies/
Division of Psychiatry/
DSIS/
Green BSEER/
ICH Library, UCL/
Institute of Archaeology Library/
Institute of Ophthalmology/
IoE Library/
IoO Library/
Legion of Eunomia/
OVPA/
PALS/
Queen Square Library/
Royal Free Medical Library/
School of Pharmacy Library/
UCL Careers/
UCL Innovation & Enterprise/
UCL Language & Speech Science Library/
UCL Medical School/
UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory/
UCL Planning/
UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology Admin/
Wickford Stores/

Green Impact Silver

This is to celebrate the hard work of all the 2021/2022 Green Impact Silver Award recipients. Each team will have two trees donated on their behalf.

The teams are:

Bartlett Faculty Office/
Ear Institute Team/
Green Laws/
History of Art/
IOE APO Green Crusaders/
Jewish Green/
Main Library (Library)/
Mathematics/
Science Team/
Senate House UCL Hub (Library)/
Senate House UCL Hub (Office)/
SSEES Evergreens/
Student Registry Services/
Sustainable PPP/
UCL Institute of Orthopaedics Library/

Green Impact Bronze

This is to celebrate the hard work of all the 2021/2022 Green Impact Bronze Award recipients. Each team will have one tree donated on their behalf.

The teams are:

Bartlett Library/
CLIE Climate Action Team/
Epidemiology and Public Health/
IoE Primary PGCE/
IoPD Green Team/
Main Library (Office)/
Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering/
Philosophy Green Team/
SA/ISS/DCP-/
SSEES Library/
UCL GOS ICH DBC Green Team/

LEAF Gold Award Team

This is to celebrate the hard work of all the 2021/2022 LEAF Gold Award recipients.
Each team will have three trees donated on their behalf.

The teams are:

A.C.B.E/
Amrolia (ZCR)/
Annette Dolphin Lab/
Brogan/Eleftheriou - /
Central BSU/
Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy Labs/
Crompton Lab/
Cruciform 3.4/
Department of Neurodegenerative Disease/
Department of Neuromuscular Diseases/
DSIS labs/
Fish Floor Anatomy/
Flow Cytometry Core Facility Lab/
GCLP/
Geography Labs/
Graham Lab 101/
IoO labs/
Kurian Lab – ZCR/
PALS LEAF lab/
Qasim Lab/
Sainsbury Wellcome Centre/
School of Pharmacy Teaching Labs/
UCL Respiratory/
UK DRI/
Wedderburn lab/
WLDI Skin Lab/

LEAF Silver

This is to celebrate the hard work of all the 2021/2022 LEAF Silver Award recipients.
Each team will have two trees donated on their behalf.

The teams are:

Barnes Lab/
Carmalt and Parkin Research Groups/
Centre for Clinical Microbiology/
Department of Neuroinflammation at Wakefield St/
Dept. of Clinical and Movement Neuroscience/
Ear Institute Labs/
ICH BSU/
ICH Lab Management Team/
KLB BSU/
Institute of Healthy Ageing/
Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering/
MRC Prion Unit at UCL, Institute of Prion Diseases/
Nanotechnology laboratory/
Pallett lab (IIT)/
Pharmaceutics Instrumental Laboratories/
Thermal Analysis Laboratory/
WHO PSLR/
Women’s Health Chenies Mews/
Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging/

LEAF Bronze

This is to celebrate the hard work of all the 2021/2022 LEAF Bronze Award recipients. Each team will have one tree donated on their behalf.

The teams are:

6.02 Teaching Lab/
Breuer Lab/
Confocal and Light Microscopy Core Facility/
Cruciform BSU/
De Coppi Lab/
Dubowitz Neuromuscular centre/
Electrochemical Innovation Labs/
Experimental Physical Chemistry – Salzmann/
Fielding Group - LG32/
G16 Electrochemistry Lab/
GGM MBRD 1st Floor/
ICH - Ground Floor Labs (Jenkins et al)/
ICH - Respiratory Infection/
Insect Labs Darwin GFloor/
IoO BSU/
Kinsler/
Klein/
Lab-308_exNDU/
LG30 - Volpe Lab/
LG31 - Clarke Group/
LMCB Greeners/
Long/Scambler Lab (204/209)-/
Mass Spec lab/
Mechanical Engineering Teaching Labs/
Pharmaceutics Tissue Culture Facility (301a)/
PUW149/
Rheumatology labs – Rayne/
Royal Free BSU/
SoP-MSc Teaching/Instrumentation Laboratory (B56)-/
Sowden & Ferretti Lab/
Standing/Readman 117 -/
Thrasher Lab/
TIGI/
UCL Genomics/
Williams Lab/
ZCR Cancer/

Special Award for Sustainability Plan

The Sustainability Plan is a bespoke plan which focuses on the unique sustainability opportunities and challenges that are connected to a division or faculty’s area of work.

There are four recipient teams of this award, each have had two trees donated on their behalf.

The teams are:

PALS Green Team/
Accommodation/
The Bartlett/
The Students’ Union UC/

Special Awards Highly Commended

These trees are donated on behalf of the 6 Highly Commended recipients of the Special Sustainability Awards 2022.
These celebrate the outstanding achievements of UCL individuals and teams who have gone the extra mile in their practices, projects and research to ensure sustainability is at the fore.

Each recipient has had 2 trees donated on their behalf.
The Highly Commended recipients are:

Staff Award for Outstanding Commitment to Sustainability:
Dr. Zareena Gani

Student Award for Outstanding Commitment to Sustainability:
Trizzha Feliciano and Vaania Kapoor Achuthan

Sustainability Impact Award:
IoE Student Support Team

Sustainability Research Award :
Dr. Jing Meng

Sustainability Education Award:
Dr. Lorenzo Lott

Special Awards Winners

These trees are donated on behalf of the 5 winners of the Special Sustainability Awards Categories 2022.
These celebrate the outstanding achievements of UCL individuals and teams who have gone the extra mile in their practices, projects and research to ensure sustainability is at the fore.

Each winner has had 3 trees donated on their behalf.
The winners are:

Staff Award for Outstanding Commitment to Sustainability:
Wesley Knapp

Student Award for Outstanding Commitment to Sustainability: Mukund Hari Nathany

Sustainability Impact Award:
The Logistics Team

Sustainability Research Award:
Professor Sanjay Sisodiya

Sustainability Education Award:
PCPH Primary Care Medical Education team

Business trip offset!

go trees!

Remembering fun times at UCL ?

For my beloved parents. Hope that we will visit those trees sometimes together after covid.

For my beloved parents.
Hope that we will visit those trees sometimes together after covid.

Offset flight

Really great initiative. 1 tree :)

A tree for each member of my family - this is such a great initiative.

A tree for each member of my family - this is such a great initiative.

We are donating these trees in honour of our amazing colleague
Graham Woodgate who retired in 2021.
With love from all the staff and students at the UCL Institute of the Americas,
who have had the pleasure of working with you over the years.

For the future - but we must also all do more in the present, starting with lobbying the UK government for more action on climate change ahead of COP26 in Glasgow! (no new oil and gas fields!)

György Somlyó: Stake and tree
I cut a stake to hold a flower,
had pushed it in a pot of soil and thought
that as my knife had killed it, it really ought
be dead, that I commanded all the power

to make of it what whim would say I could,
and that its trunk was there to serve my need,
no shoots on it, no roots to feed,
a tree no longer, only a stake of wood.

But how the beauty of life puts man to shame:
no sooner was it in the earth there came
resinous buds that opened up with glee.

Maimed, reduced to thing, it dared defy
ignoble death, rejected it to cry
that it was more than wood - and stayed a tree.

Helping to make sure there's a green future for my nephews and neices.

Ágnes Nemes Nagy

Winter trees
You have to learn. The trees in winter.
As hoarfrost dresses foot, top, centre
curtains of white that nothing moves –

You have to learn those secret grooves
where crystals start to turn to vapour
and trees fade over into fog
just as bodies flow into memory

And the river behind the trees
flapping mute wings of skeins of geese,
the blues of blinding ice-white nights
in which some hooded objects linger -
this is our task: We have to seize
the trees' inexplicable deeds.

Father and daughter, class of 62 and 84, delighted to add to the UCL grove

Brassies Trees for the Sudeley Massive

Another 10 trees from the class of 1984. Let's keep it going for the baby docs and our other amazing offspring.

Class of 1984..... here’s to many more annual reunions to come...!

2020 created a lot of space to reflect on the unsustainable practices that are our normal practice. Delighted to contribute to this amazing endeavor

2020 created a lot of space to reflect on the unsustainable practices that are our normal practice. Delighted to contribute to this amazing endeavor

Delighted to 'buy' these trees for our brilliant sustainability champion Deanne. Look forward to visiting one day

'See my works, how fine and excellent they are. All that I have created, I have created for you. Think upon this and do not corrupt or destroy my world, for if you do, there is no one to set it right after you' (Rabbis, Midrash Ecclesiastes)

Summer holiday!

We would like to contribute towards the reduction of our carbon emissions of living in a London household and trying to contribute as much as we can to reduce this. Louisa, Tom & Matt.

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

The world would be a much worse place without trees.

The world would be a much worse place without trees.

Let's get planting!

Let's get planting!

I love trees!

This sounds like a great idea!